On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jim Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > At the OGB meeting today we discussed the planned user roles and > privileges[1]. There were several concerns raised. > > Others with follow-up with there concerns, but I would like to > request the reasoning behind the decision to use the "Developer" > and "Affiliate" term instead of the "Contributor" term in the > Project and User Group collectives. > > Unless there is good reason for adding these new terms, I think the > term "Contributor" should be used consistently across all collectives > to reduce confusion and eliminating the possibility of community > members interpreting that the role terminology implies different > status or capabilities. The current model especially impacts community > members that contribute to multiple collect types. > > Cheers, > Jim > > [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/transition-roles-collectives/
I have two key concerns: 1. Whatever roles apply on the website should be completely independent of governance. Neither should imply the other. Therefore connecting the ability to do operations on the website with ones' constitutional voting rights is a mistake. (I note that the current auth app separates electoral responsibilities from website responsibilities - something that the above document doesn't make clear.) 2. Similarly, standing within a collective should be independent of website editing rights. Collectives may wish to designate a small group of people (who may simply have an administrative role) to edit the website. Other models are possible. Generally, the guiding principle should be that we shouldn't tie roles in one functional area with roles in a different area. I would have hoped that we would have learned from the mistake in the original constitution of conflating rights within an individual collective and community-wide rights. If we wish to give a user editing rights or commit rights, then we give them edit rights or commit rights, rather than hoping that a standardized role would work. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
